Melinda Mills

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted genome-wide association studies of three phenotypes: subjective well-being (n = 298,420), depressive symptoms (n= 161,460), and neuroticism(n = 170,911).

TL;DR: Evidence shows that some social policies can be effective in countering postponement and a growing body of literature shows that female employment and childrearing can be combined when the reduction in work-family conflict is facilitated by policy intervention.

TL;DR: The role of age structure in deaths thus far in Italy and South Korea and how the pandemic could unfold in populations with similar population sizes but different age structures are examined, showing a dramatically higher burden of mortality in countries with older versus younger populations.

TL;DR: The authors investigates the impact that institutions working with social groups of youths have upon those youths' abilities to make adult decisions determining their life courses, including case studies and country-specific contributions on conservative, social-democratic, post-socialist, liberal and familistic welfare regimes.

TL;DR: This paper provides a review of fertility research in advanced societies, societies in which birth control is the default option, and summarizes how contemporary research has explained ongoing and expected fertility changes across time and space.